events calendar for past 2008 events

2008

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January 2008
9 January USA Assisting Victims of Intimate Partner Stalking

23 January USA Eight Steps to Coalition Building: Fostering Strategic Partnerships to Prevent Violence Against Women

28 January-1 February USA 22nd Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment

29-31 January QLD 9th Annual Global Development Conference: Security for Development - Confronting Threats to Survival and Safety

31 January VIC

Dennis McDermott Indigenous Deep Listening workshop -

Yalukit Wilam Ngargee: People Place Gathering

February 2008
8-10 February ACT

Sentencing 2008 Conference

15-16 February USA

From Ideology to Inclusion:Evidence-Based Policy and Intervention in Domestic Violence


15 - 17 February VIC V-Day Melbourne Festival, 2008

19 February VIC Launch of Victorian Women Vote

22-24 February QLD 15th Annual Women's Health Conference

25-26 February VIC

Young people, crime and community safety: engagement and early intervention

29 February NSW

Age Gives No Immunity to Violence - a one-day forum on the abuse of older women

March 2008
6 March TAS International Women's Day Breakfast with Kaz Cooke

8 March International

International Women's Day

8 March NSW International Women's Day

8 March QLD International Women's Day - WOMENTORING “Women mentoring women”

17-20 March VIC

3rd International Congress on Women's Mental Health

18 March NSW Domestic Violence Network Forum

18-19 March UK

Family Aggression: Causes & Consequences: First Biennial Conference of the International Family Aggression Society


22-23 March QLD

Behavioural evidence practicum: crime reconstruction and criminal profiling

30 March-5 April Australia (national) Law Week
31 March-2 April USA International Conference on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence and Stalking

April 2008
7 April NSW Older Persons’ Legal & Education Program

7-9 April NSW NSW CLC State Conference 2008

10-11 April New Zealand

Child Law Conference - Child and Youth Advocacy: Current Issues, Trends and Research – the Challenges Ahead

13 -15 April SA Shared parental responsibility in Australian family law and the impact on children Seminar

14-15 April New Zealand

Keeping Kids Safe – tamariki te tuatahi

14-16 April NSW

First National Indigenous Family and Community Strengths Conference 


16 April NSW "That's So Gay" 2008 - Addressing homophobia and celebrating diversity in educational settings

16-18 April NSW

Fifth Australian Family and Community Strengths Conference

22-23 April TAS Treating Complex trauma:  Understanding the neurobiology of abuse related trauma in children and young people

May 2008
1-31 May QLD QLD Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month

7 May QLD Candle Lighting Ceremonies around Queensland for Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month

5-7 May Hungary 7th Global Conference: Violence and the Contexts of Hostility

14-15 May QLD

Indigenous Family Violence Prevention Forum


21-23 May SA

5th National Homelessness Conference New Horizons:

Practice, Research and Emerging Issues

22-23 May ACT

Family Violence and Specialist Courts, National and International Perspectives, National Conference

23-25 May SA Ethical Responsiveness - The third national conference for the
Australian College for Child and Family Protection Practitioners


26 May Australia (national) National Sorry Day
26-28 May VIC

Nexus Policing: Binding Research to Practice Conference

24 April WA Stand United Against Domestic & Family Violence

June 2008
15-21 June National Refugee Week 2008 - Theme: 'A Place to Call Home'

16 June QLD Admin CEOChallenge - Breakfast with Jim Hardeman

18-19 June NSW ANZ Critical Criminology Conference

20-21 June NSW Sexual Abuse in Religious Contexts

July 2008
3-9 July Spain

10th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women

4 July SA United Against Domestic Violence

9-11 July VIC 10th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, Families Through Life

17 July VIC STAYING AWAKE! Putting Sleep on the Domestic Violence Agenda

18-23 July USA

NCADV's 30th Anniversary Conference: Building Grassroots Leadership for Social Justice

20-25 July Spain

XV World Congress of the International Society for Criminology 

22-24 July WA

Engendering Leadership Conference

August 2008
4 August National

National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day

8 August NSW

Sharing Our Way in Community Care - NCOSS Conferences


14-16 August QLD RANZCP Bi-National Conference 2008 - Drugs, Alcohol and Family Violence

20 August NSW

Cindy Blackstock Seminar: How Indigenous knowledge can help welfare systems respond to structural risk factors

17-20 August NT 2008 NACLC conference

22 August SA

Addressing Violence Alliance - IT’S TIME: Creating a future free from violence - men’s responsibilities


22-24 August TAS RANZCP Bi-National Conference - Trauma, Disorganised Attachment and Dissociation: Opportunities for Repair